Archives for
April 2013

Most of us have experienced the agony of a flight delay, or worse: a cancellation. While you might not have to worry about flight changes caused by FAA furloughs for now, Mother Nature can always throw a wrench into your plans. A new service brings t...

Who says high society has no passionate love affairs? Matthew and Mary Crawley, of the British period drama Downton Abbey, are the Romeo and Juliet (or Ross and Rachel, for our modern readers) of British TV. Their love story is one of the greatest jo...

Rumor has it that Apple will be releasing OS X 10.9 later this year. Code-named “Cabernet,” the operating system will integrate several core features from Apple’s mobile operating system, iOS, as well as add a number of “power-user” enhancements, 9to...

A picture’s worth a thousand words, but sometimes our pictures -- no matter how fabulous they are -- still need a few words of explanation to go along with them. Enter SpeakingPhoto, a new iPhone app that lets you add sound to any photo, allowing you...

Evernote updated its Evernote Food app for Android, which helps users remember the food and restaurants they love, and discover new cuisine. On Monday, version 2.0 added the ability for users to explore recipes from popular food sites within the app,...

In tech hub San Francisco, Calif., police say that nearly half of all the city's robberies last year involved smartphones. But instead of focusing on the stolen supply, the city's police department is going after the demand: middlemen who might buy s...

UPDATE: A promotional poster provided to IGN confirms that the official title of the upcoming Call of Duty video game will be Call of Duty: Ghosts. It is slated for released on Nov. 5. An apparent teaser for the upcoming Call of Duty: Ghosts video ga...

An action-packed trailer for Fast and Furious 6, the sixth installment of the street-racing film series, has debuted online. The latest movie brings back long-time Fast and the Furious regulars, including Vin Diesel, Paul Walker, Michelle Rodriguez a...

Sci-fi flick Oblivion roared into theaters this month, quickly securing the top spot on the box office charts with a $38.2 million debut. The post-apocalyptic world in which Tom Cruise's character explores on the big screen began years ago as artwork...

Skype audio- and video-calling will roll out to Outlook.com inboxes across the UK starting Monday, and to the U.S. and Germany in the coming weeks, the VoIP service announced. "We all face those situation where it's easier to jump on a call to talk s...

As Facebook prepares Graph Search for wide release, some have concerns about the privacy issues the new feature raises. How can you be sure only your friends will see your name during searches? After all, more than a quarter of Facebook users share i...

Guillermo del Toro's dark, apocalyptic vision of the future is filled with monstrous beings from the deep. Earth's only chance? Giant robots, of course. In "Pacific Rim," each robot is operated by two humans via a neural link, but we already saw that...

A New York City startup is saying it can produce a men’s button-down shirt from wool that’s super-soft, doesn’t need ironing and won’t smell even after being worn for 100 days straight without washing. And the company’s founder apparently did just th...

The folks at CERN, the organization responsible for devising the fundamental web standards, are celebrating World Wide Web's 20th birthday by bringing back the first ever website to its original URL. Although the first website was launched in 1991, i...

Fab is continuing to evolve from a flash sales site into something bigger -- as its founders hope, the world's largest store for design. The startup, which pivoted from a flash sales site aimed at gay men two years ago, held a presentation in New Yor...

Put away the parkas and long johns. Love and pollen are in the air, which means spring has arrived. But as we shake off winter's icy grip and welcome the return of the color green, we face a whole new set of concerns. Were are my jorts? How do I un-H...

The Jawbone UP bracelet does a good job of tracking your steps, sleep and meals, but it's still just one of many apps that monitor your physical activity and health. With today's launch of the UP platform, however, Jawbone aims to become so much more...

Curating content to feed the hearty appetites of the news-obsessed is a tall order. Readers demand high quality stories that both inform and entertain. Now, a new news app for the iPad is offering an in-depth look at some overlooked topics in a visua...

The Financial Times is celebrating its 125th anniversary this week, offering a one-year standard subscription to the FT.com for $125, approximately 62% off the regular retail price. The offer is valid to first-time U.S. subscribers only through May 1...

Welcome to this morning's edition of "First To Know," a series in which we keep you in the know on what's happening in the digital world. Today, we're looking at three particularly interesting stories. After many iterations of skeuomorphic-design-lad...

As Rebecca Martinson knows, there’s no privacy on the Internet. When a profanity-laden rant she emailed to only her Delta Gamma sorority sisters made its way onto Gawker and into viral history, she was publicly mocked and forced to resign from the so...

BlackBerry (née RIM) has had a tough time in the tablet market to date, but according to the company's CEO, that doesn't matter because the market itself is doomed. "In five years I don’t think there’ll be a reason to have a tablet anymore," CEO Thor...

There's not much that can evoke thoughts of both work and play like buying airfare. You're either trying to find a last-minute ticket to make it in time for a meeting, or hoping to get to a remote island as cheaply as possible. Some trips are regular...

Twitter on Tuesday opened up its advertising options for all U.S. users. The company had previously made advertising on the platform invite-only. Kevin Weil, Twitter's senior director of product for revenue at Twitter, made the announcement at TechCr...

When Apple dismissed iOS head Scott Forstall last year, the software's look and feel became the domain of the company's designer-in-chief, Jonathan Ive. Many predicted that Ive, whose simple hardware designs have become iconic in the industry, would ...

The epic scope of the universe sometimes inspires us to ask answerless questions. What would happen if the sun just blinked out? What if Mars took the place of our moon? The laws of nature prevent these things from happening, but still, we wonder. Fe...

The newest Grand Theft Auto V trailer gives us a closer look at the game's three protagonists: Michael, Franklin and Trevor. Grand Theft Auto V will give fans the unique experience of switching between three characters to achieve the game's objective...

Two months after Yahoo restricted employees' work-from-home option, it is giving its workers another perk: more paid leave for new parents. Yahoo is doubling the amount of paid leave time that new mothers are eligible to take, from eight weeks to 16 ...

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